Part B journal yueting yang 810226

Studio Air 2017, SEMESTER 2 Student: Yueting Yang 810226 Tutor: Julius Egan

Part B. CRITERIA DESIGN B.1. Research Field B.2. Case Study 1.0 B.3. Case Study 2.0 B.4. Technique: Development B.5. Technique: Prototypes B.6. Technique: Proposal B.7. Learning Objectives and Outcomes B.8. Appendix - Algorithmic Sketches

Task1

Perspective View

Inspiration

Bill Henson (2016)

When designers do their design, they put in their emotion. When people enter the building, they experience the space with their own subjective emotion. Therefore, I want to people feel the melancholy emotion just as the photo conveys when they work through the bulding. After people walk into the broken heart, they can peak the outside world through those wound cut.

Image source: http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/images/galleries/HENSON_ RO9exhibition_OCT2012/LS-SH122-N23-2011-12-Final-RelCol.jpg

Broken Heart

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elevation

Broken Heart

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interior view

Broken Heart

B.1. Research Field -- Geometry

Geometry is a field which research about ruled

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surfaces, paraboloids, minimal surfaces, geodesics, relaxation and general form finding, booleans, etc.

In most cases, it is related to physical simulation and mathematic in order to find the proper form.

For example, when Antoni Gaudi designed the Sagrada Familia Cathedral, he used the hanging chain model to test the structurally suitable and reasonable geometric shape of the cathedral.

Nowadays, people can do the same simulation just in the computer and change the parameters to get

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different results.

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If the geometry system is been fully taken advantage, it can not only contribute to the asthetic

Fig2 Digital simulation of hanging chain

quality but also buildability.Howeverdesigners only focus on the geometrical form, they kind of ignore of the constructability and engineering feasibility which means they created a very irregular form but fail to optimise the structure or fabrication process. It costs a lot money and manual work for people to build this shape which is not sustainable and eco-efficient.

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Fig3 L'Oceanografic

Fig5 VoltaDom by Skylar Tibbits

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Fig4 San Gennaro North Gate

http://designplaygrounds.com/deviants/san-gennaro-north-gate-by-softlab/

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http://designplaygrounds.com/deviants/voltadom-by-skylar-tibbits/

Ruled surfaces Paraboloids Minimal surfaces Relaxation General form finding

Geodesics Booleans

B.2. Case Study 1.0 Partners:Mak Max; Peter Murphy; TOKO Project: GREEN VOID Date: 2008 Location: Sydney, Australia

https://www.designboom.com/architecture/toyo-ito-taichung-metropolitan-opera/

The whole structure looks like a green visible bubble made by light wight fabric. The logic behind this is mainly based on minimal tensile surface. In the computer software, they mimic the real quality of tensile fabric and then separate and optimize the structure to different pieces to fabricate by CNC.

For this project, firstly, the parametric design technology enables designers to make such an organic structure.

Secondly, they use this quite special material which is light, easy to set up or move to other places. Thirdly, it is completely different structure compared to the existing building, people no matter look out from window or touch it can integrate with it.

To find the structure in grasshopper, we have to a use a plugin called Kangaroo which allows users to simulate the real condition by input tensile strengthen, rest length or forces as parameters, so my next iterations are mainly based on this logic.

Fig4 Optimization of strucrture

Fig4 Plan and elevation

Fig4 Light effect in the night

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B.2. Case Study 1.0 / Iteration

Iteration 1

Adjust the position and shape of each openning

Iteration 2

Adjust the rest length and strength of the physical engine

Iteration 3

Adjust the number of branch and openning

B.2. Case Study 1.0 / Iteration

Iteration 4

Adjust the complexity of joints

Iteration 5

Change the frame of ekoskeleton to get a different outcome

B.2. Case Study 1.0 / Successful iterations

For this iteration, I change the number and positon of the opening , so in this case, if move the model to other places and they have different requirements for the opening of the model in order to suit the site better, designer can just simply change the parameter.

For this iteration, I created more joints for the structure.

Imaging if the structure can grow like a branch with infinite possibility, it can be put in any site with any scale and the whole complex can be crazy.

In this iteration, I adjust the strength for the physical engine. Instead of looks like a tensile membrane as before, it presents a different material quality which is very hard, thus for this model, it can be built by other materials like wood or steel.

All the previous iterations are based on the exoskeleton system and then processed by Kangaroo engine, so this time, I am trying to change the wireframe and make different exoskeleton complex to test different outcome

Task2

Perspective View

Inspiration

West Side Story - Prologue - Official Full Number - 50th Anniversary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxoC5Oyf_ss$t

Madness of Vision

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Interior View

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Perspective View

The opening scene of the film West Side Story, saw the brawls between the two gangs interpretated as a dance choreography.

However, the framing of the camera restricted our abilty to foresee and thus there were constant overwhelming of content in the frame with people coming into scene from all different angles and sides, all at once, then suddenly moving away into different scenes and so on. We reflected this idea into our model and used different colours to represent the madness that we saw from the choreography and camera framings, with the structure almost sprouting into different directions, creating different pathways that are linked together to create one whole entity.

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Plan

Michael Gromm's artistic style combines planned and unplanned methods, and using acrylic and oil he is able to produce organic forms and irregular patterns. The lines and clear definitions of the medium in the artwork were our main inspiration. The pavilion is shaped almost like the frozen state of the river, and engulfs part of the river itself, allowing full engagement with the water.

Inspiration

Any malls by Michael Gromm https://www.flg.com.au/sites/default/files/Gromm-Michael-any.malls-2017-182x152oil-acrylic-on-canvas.jpg

LIQUIDATION

Task3

Perspective

LIQUIDATION

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Section

LIQUIDATION

https://www.designboom.com/architecture/toyo-ito-taichung-metropolitan-opera/

B.3. Case Study 2.0 Architect: Toyo ito Project: Taichung metropolitan opera Date: 2009

After Case Study1.0, I further developed my study of Geometry. The skin of Taichung Opera House is formed by minimal surface which is simulated in the computer. It is a ground-breaking project in 2009 when the computational technology is not as popular and advanced as today. Therefore, once the project was completed in 2013, it undoubtedly becomes a landmark architecture in Taichung. Although its shape is very remarkable, it did not optimise the structure of the building for engineering consideration thus it costs a lot money to build those irregular curved walls which I think is a shortcoming of this project

Fig1 Finding the shape of minimal surface

Fig2 Construction of curved surface

B.3. Case Study 2.0 Reverse-engineering

Re-engineer Process

Generate voronoi grid inside a

Offset each voronoi cell

Moving up and loft

boundary

A different direction for the

Combinning the two set of loft

Create shape by mirror and

other set of cells

surfaces

trimed with the boundary

Final outcome

B.4. Technique: Development

Iteration 1

Adjust the openning scale

Pcen Scale 0.05

Pcen Scale 0.1

Surface Divide 5

Surface Divide 8

Iteration 2

Adjust the subdividing of surface to get different degree of smooth

Iteration 3

Adjust centre definition to get offset effect

Pcen Scale 0.2

Surface Divide 18

Pcen Scale 0.5

Surface Divide 26

Pcen Scale 0.8

Surface Divide 40

Iteration 4

Adjust the Beizer graph mapper to create different pattern

Iteration 5

Adjust the conic graph mapper to create different pattern

Iteration 6

Adjust the cell pattern and tensil strength

Iteration 7

Convert flat voronoi grid to 3d voronoi grid

Iteration 8

Useing irregular boundary instead of box

Iteration 9

Mininal surface pulgin to replace kangaroo engine

B.5. Technique: Prototypes Step 1

Form Finding in grasshopper

Step 2

Optimise Struccture to approximate developable surface

Step 3

Unroll the surface for fabrication

Step 4

Design the joint for connection

Step 5

cut out the template

Step 6

folding the template into one component

B.5. Technique: Prototypes

Step 7

Join two units together

Step 8

Join four units together

Step 8

Join six units together

Step 8

Final model

Task4

Perspective

Technically, this project will combine the physical simulation and minimal surface with our concept and the function. When people sit on the membrane structure, they will change its sag and thus change its shape so the form is dynamic and always interacting with people.

INTRUSION -

Our given bird was the ‘Blue bonnet’, which from research shows that has an agressive behaviour and when put into a cage with other birds, will kill those that are weaker than it. ‘Intrusion’ is inspired by this and features a spiky design that intrudes the surrounding environment. We propose that this piece could be a bird cage, where the birds are not locked within an enclosure but would instead become an enclosure for passbyers as they would feel trapped within the space, whilst the birds become the observer instead. Similarly, it also portrays the conflicts between architecture and the natural environment - these two do not always compliment each other.

Behaviour is not only seen from organisms, but also through non-organic objects.

Appearances can portray different forms and shapes and this entitles us to perceive different emotions - in this case, the spiky forms exude isolation and danger.

Inspiration

Bluebonnet bird http://www.oiseaux.net/photos/henrik.gronvold/images/ perruche.a.bonnet.bleu.hegr.0p.jpg

Task4

Perspective

INTRUSION -

Task4

Section

INTRUSION -

B.6. Technique: Proposalpes Plan

Cloning

This building incorporates the poetic aesthetics from the extract of Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”.

Simillar to how the city was described as something unerasable from the mind, and that each point served as an “immediate aid to memory”. As a building it contains different levels and spaces, where each space contains a formable fabric piece, however as each piece is almost identical, it plays on the aspect of how the ‘city’ is something that contains different images, but could also rather be a replication of the same image, mirrored or resized.

B.6. Technique: Proposalpes Perspective

B.6. Technique: Proposalpes Elevation

B.7. Learning Objectives and Outcomes

Through Part B general Task, I studied how to use physical engine in grasshopper to develop geometry forms. By playing with iterations, I found the outcomes are usually out of control, so list out all of the iterations and then pick out the most suitable one is a good way to develop ideas.

I applied the skills I get from general task to my weekly task, then combined with the source concept from photo, painting, dancing, book or bird. The skills are just tools so what I learned from tutorial is how to use these tools to convey our ideas and express them in a digital way.

To put the digital model into the real site, the next thing I need to take into consideration is the function, so each time, we make a render and put the scale of person inside our model to figure out what function it should has and which group of people can be benefited through the project.

For the next coming Part C, the logic of four-step design should be kept to further develop pour projects. By the way, group work is fantastic, especially when you have an enthusiastic partner.

B.8. Appendix - Sketches

VCCC building by McBride Charles Ryan

NGV Australia by LAB Studio